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On the non-x86 side, ARM has had this for a VERY long time. Certainly at last since ARMv7-A onward, and I think even before that.

Pretty much any core in "Cortex-A" series (e.g popular Cortex-A8, A15, A57) has support for fast, flush-less address space switching using ASIDs. Address space / context switch overhead has NOT been a good reason to avoid this kind of compartmentalization, for at least the last decade or so.



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